Union Official Time: Why a Basic Change is Needed

In this article, the author, a former federal agency labor and employee relations director, currently working with and training federal agencies to resolve employee problems at all levels, discusses the use of official time in federal labor relations. He focuses on the key question:

  • Did the Congress of the United States intend to eliminate any labor dollar cost of negotiations to an employee union and place the entire cost of the time spent by union employee representatives on the American taxpayer?

and addresses five problems with the way administrative bodies such as the FLRA and EEOC have interpreted federal labor relations law.

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Which of the five problems and discussion did you agree with? Didn’t agree with? Do you have other questions? What are they?

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